Publications related to ARM big.LITTLE

Chaosity: Understanding Contemporary NUMA-architectures

Anastasia Ailamaki, Viktor Sanca, Syed Mohammad Aunn Raza, Hamish Mcniece Hill Nicholson, Andreea Nica

Modern hardware is increasingly complex, requiring increasing effort to understand in order to carefully engineer systems for optimal performance and effective utilization. Moreover, established design principles and assumptions are not portable to modern ...

2023

Genome Sequence Alignment - Design Space Exploration for Optimal Performance and Energy Architectures

David Atienza Alonso, Marina Zapater Sancho, Yasir Mahmood Qureshi, José Manuel Herruzo Ruiz

Next generation workloads, such as genome sequencing, have an astounding impact in the healthcare sector. Sequence alignment, the first step in genome sequencing, has experienced recent breakthroughs, which resulted in next generation sequencing (NGS). As ...

2020

A Machine Learning-Based Strategy for Efficient Resource Management of Video Encoding on Heterogeneous MPSoCs

David Atienza Alonso, Marina Zapater Sancho, Arman Iranfar, William Andrew Simon

The design of new streaming systems is becoming a major area of research to deploy services targeted in the Internet-of-Things (IoT) era. In this context, the new High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard provides high efficiency and scalability of qual ...

2018

Multi-Arm Self-Collision Avoidance: A Sparse Solution for a Big Data Problem

Aude Billard, Nadia Barbara Figueroa Fernandez, Seyed Sina Mirrazavi Salehian

In this work, we propose a data-driven approach for real-time self-collision avoidance in multi-arm systems. The approach consists of modeling the regions in joint-space that lead to collisions via a Self-Collision Avoidance (SCA) boundary and use it as a ...

2018

Compliant control of Uni/ Multi- robotic arms with dynamical systems

Seyed Sina Mirrazavi Salehian

Accomplishment of many interactive tasks hinges on the compliance of humans. Humans demonstrate an impressive capability of complying their behavior and more particularly their motions with the environment in everyday life. In humans, compliance emerges fr ...

EPFL2018

Envirobot: A Bio-Inspired Environmental Monitoring Platform

Auke Ijspeert, Alessandro Crespi

Autonomous marine vehicles are becoming essential tools in aquatic environmental monitoring systems, and can be used for instance for data acquisition, remote sensing, and mapping of the spatial extent of pollutant spills. In this work, we present an uncon ...

Ieee2016

Sensing with Advanced Computing Technology: Fin Field-Effect Transistors with High-k Gate Stack on Bulk Silicon

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Didier Bouvet, Antonios Bazigos, Sara Rigante, Elizabeth Buitrago Godinez, Paolo Scarbolo

Field-effect transistors (FETs) form an established technology for sensing applications. However, recent advancements and use of high-performance multigate metal-oxide semiconductor FETs (double-gate, FinFET, trigate, gate-all-around) in computing technolo ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015

Scalable Simulation Methodologies for Many-Core Heterogeneous Systems

Shivani Raghav

With increasing complexity and performance demands of emerging compute-intensive data-parallel workloads, many-core computing systems are becoming a popular trend in computer design. Fast and scalable simulation methods are needed to make meaningful predic ...

EPFL2014

Transactions Chasing Scalability and Instruction Locality on Multicores

Pinar Tözün

For several decades, online transaction processing (OLTP) has been one of the main server applications that drives innovations in the data management ecosystem, and in turn the database and computer architecture communities. Recent hardware trends oblige s ...

EPFL2014

Cuckoo Directory: A Scalable Directory for Many-Core Systems

Babak Falsafi, Michael Ferdman, Pejman Lotfi Kamran, Ken Balet

Growing core counts have highlighted the need for scalable on-chip coherence mechanisms. The increase in the number of on-chip cores exposes the energy and area costs of scaling the directories. Duplicate-tag based directories require highly associative st ...

IEEE Press2011

Power/Performance Exploration of Single-core and Multi-core Processor Approaches for Biomedical Signal Processing

David Atienza Alonso, Ahmed Yasir Dogan, Andreas Peter Burg, Luca Benini

This study presents a single-core and a multi-core processor architecture for health monitoring systems where slow biosignal events and highly parallel computations exist. The single-core architecture is composed of a processing core (PC), an instruction m ...

Springer-Verlag Heidelberg2011

Inducing Thermal-Awareness in Multicore Systems Using Networks-on-Chip

David Atienza Alonso

Technology scaling imposes an ever increasing temperature stress on digital circuit design due to transistor density, especially on highly integrated systems, such as Multi- Processor Systems-on-Chip (MPSoCs). Therefore, temperature-aware design is mandato ...

IEEE Computer Society2009

Application of FPGA Emulation to SoC Floorplan and Packaging Exploration

Giovanni De Micheli, David Atienza Alonso, Luca Benini, Pablo Garcia del Valle, Roman Hermida Correa

New tendencies in the consumer electronics market present Multi-Processor Systems-On-Chip (MPSoCs) as a promising solution for meeting the processing demands of upcoming generations of user applications. MPSoCs are complex to design, as they must execute m ...

2007